Quotes from book
The Trial of Lucullus

Bertolt Brecht
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“Always the victor writes the history of the vanquished. He who beats distorts the faces of the beaten. The weaker depart from this world and the lies remain.”

Bertolt Brecht book The Trial of Lucullus

The Trial of Lucullus (1940), Brecht Collected Plays, vol. 4, p. 386.

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